AUSTIN, TX—With 2,000 bands traveling from across the country and around the world to perform at South by Southwest, one question that always hangs over these proceedings is how many of them ever will find it possible to support themselves solely by their music.Now more than ever, post-digital

AUSTIN, TX—Unlike many (most?) of the journalists who cover the South by Southwest Music Festival, Greg Kot and I generally skip the daytime parties—which may be fewer this year, but still are myriad—in favor of covering the panels at the Austin Convention Center, which often offer

AUSTIN, TX—If South by Southwest 2014 was the saddest in the 28-year history of this cornerstone event for the music industry—as much for the corporate soul-sucking and horrible overcrowding as for the tragic and fatal car accident—2015 promises to be an attempt to scale back a bit

The occasional and exceptional celebration of a Patricia Arquette aside, popular culture’s tendency to discount female artists once they hit the second third of their lives and careers is despicable, and it leads to missing far too much great art.